Comments on: Wayne Gretzsky and Gambling

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:49:41 +0000

Gee Rick.. thanks alot.. next testimony meeting when someone goes up and starts in on their testimonkeys (and we have a LOT of them) I am going to end up using my inside voice laugh OUT of my head and people will turn around wondering what I found so funny!!!

By: rick

rick — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:51:15 +0000

Some people have testimonies and some people have testimonkeys.

Testimonkeys are little stories you tell your associates for amusement, sympathy or to show how cool you are.

So next time you’re sitting there on open mic Sunday, see if you can spot the monkeys from the monies…

By: Mary Siever

Mary Siever — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:29:19 +0000

huh. well, i have heard interesting "testimonies" like blow by blow details about life problems, etc. yes people can get side-tracked and not know what Testimony meeting is for.

actually the travelogues are, um...interesting. lol

By: john scherer

john scherer — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:10:07 +0000

Not often Mary. However, certain brothers and sisters do get side tracked quite easily.

By: Mary Siever

Mary Siever — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:11:29 +0000

people talk about diets and grocery shopping in your ward during testimony meeting??

By: john scherer

john scherer — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:18:21 +0000

‘open mic day’.

That is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while.

At least Gretzky would be more exciting to hear about than diets or grocery shopping.

By: JM

JM — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:39:14 +0000

While that may seem cruel and unusual, it probably isn’t that far off the mark.

I’ve been in too many of those meeting where we end up going a good 20 minutes over time. That’ll give you about 1.5 hours.

Then, in some wards I’ve been in, the RS or priesthood leaders cop out and turn their meetings into an extended testimony session (probably because they are too lazy to prepare a lesson) which will get you at least an additional 50 minutes. So that should come out to about 2.4 hours.

By: rick

rick — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:30:23 +0000

“Share 10% of the experience in Fast and Testimony meeting.”

So that would be 2.4 hrs owing to the ward on open mic day?

Kind-of sounds like to cruel and unusual punishment … for the ward.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:48:43 +0000

Option 1 – If you win, spend the day at Church.

Option 2 – Send me the money. I will send you a form that states your ex-money is now tithing exempt which you can give your Bishop.

Option 3 – Play the game and lose.

Option 4 – Send me the money with no strings attached and be a loser.

You cannot lose if you do not play.

By: George

George — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:44:37 +0000

Spend the day at Church.

You cannot lose if you do not Play.

The other option is to send me your dollar or dollars and then you can be a real loser. Plus any money you send me is tithing exempt from then on.